Well guys, this week I'm going to introduce another great comedy of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is the most interesting and fantastic one I've read. it has hilarious plot and things out of the real world － magic.
The story includes two parts. One is about love and love and love. Hermia and Lysander are a happy couple, but the girl's father doesn't approve of their marriage. He prefers another proposer, Demetrius, but Hermia doesn't like him at all. Helena, who loves Demetrius so much, however gets no attention from him. The first part is all about the struggle of love. Another part of the story is about the Fairy. Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of fairy, are fighting for a young cute boy. Oberon wants to set up Titania but at the same time it influence the four person in the former part. It's just like a big mass around all characters.
At first, I was shocked to see magic in the master's work. I thought that all of his play shall be reasonable, and things like magic is just the opposite. After the teacher explained the story, I have another view of it and accept it. Besides, through the discussion in class, I learn that the master use magic so as to convey his idea in both reality and unreality. With this explanation, magic makes sense to me.
“A Midsummer Night's Dream” is my favorite among all of Shakespeare’s plays. Most of Shakespeare’s plays make me stressful, but it is so interesting that I think it is a little naughty! This story is so cute that I thought it was a fairy tale when I read it. I first read it when I was in elementary school. (It was of course the simple version. I’ll be a genius if I had read the terribly hard one! ) I didn’t think much about what the story tried to tell me. I simply laughed when I read the funny plot. Now I think maybe the author was try to tell us that anything can happen and never give up hopes.
ReplyDeleteThere's a line in the end of this story " Whoever wants to explain all that happened , then thy is as fool as a donkey" It's not literarily as the origin one, but the meaning is the same. I think the author must want the audience to have fun and don't take it too seriously.
DeleteHa ha it is also like a magic that I should read this story a long time ago!(0.0) Since I was not so sure whether I still remember the details, I searched the plots on Wikipedia.(XD)
ReplyDeleteWhat I remember most is the magical juice which make one fall in love with the first person he/she see when waking up, this design is totally outrageous but also outstanding! Besides, this work reflects the inequality between men and women of that era, take Hermia and Lysander’s elopement and what Oberon did to Titania. I adore stories with happy endings and English literature, but I prefer more romantic ones such as Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre, these are much simpler to me^^.
You don't need to read the story if you're not interesting in it actually, but still thanks for your willing to search it:)
DeleteYou've read "Pride and Prejudice" and "Jane Eyre"? I think we're just the opposite, they seem hard to understand for me.